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UAE laboratory will help develop robots
Software giant Microsoft has selected a UAE research laboratory to help develop robots.
Al Ain: Software giant Microsoft has selected a UAE research laboratory to help develop robots.
The Facebots project will be carried out at the Interactive Robots and Media Laboratory of the College of Information Technology at UAE University (UAEU).
Microsoft will provide funding for the research and the UAEU will be one of only eight institutions worldwide where the work is carried out, Dr Rafic Makki, Dean of the CIT, told Gulf News.
Two UAEU scientists, Dr Nikolaos Mavridis and Dr Tamer Rabie, will work on the project.
Facebots utilise social information published on FaceBook. They will know and recognise their human friends, and the friends of their friends, said the dean.
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